Jennifer wrote: > > I've started playing with a new program targeted to evolutionary > biologists, called Mesquite. Wayne Maddison is one of the authors > (UArizona I think). On first glance, the principals looked similar to > LOCI, so I suggested he contact you. On a second glance, it really > parallels LOCI, with the major exception being that Mesquite is written in > java. I don't recall his web page offhand, but if you do a search on > Maddison and Mesquite, you should find his page with little trouble. [...] > After playing a bit more, Mesquite is clearly designed for post-alignment > anaysis of sequences :( Given the file format the authors are using, it > would be difficult to change that. Gary wrote: > > You can find the web page at: > > http://spiders.arizona.edu/mesquite/mesquite.html > > From my first pass at the documentation, mesquite appears to be an > evolulationary analysis development environment. It provides modules > and libraries for phylogenetic manipulation. It has a modular design, so > developers can glue generic utilities (charts, data editors, tree > manipulators, etc.), and add their own specific functionality, into a > specialized application for evolutionary analysis. It has elements that > are similar to Loci/Vsh, but is not quite as abstracted, IMO. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+